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i just installed mandriva 2007 and am not sure what to do

 

after logging in for the first time i type startx and then it comes up saying

(EE) No devices deteced.


Fatal server error:
noscreens found



XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server "'0.0"
	after 0 reqests (o known processed) with 0 events remaining.

 

any help for a newbie?

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i have an ati radeon x700 graphics card but its not on the list the only ones that are there are radeon, radeon (fbdev), radeon (fglrx) radeon (vesa), radeon 8500 (i have a widescreen lcd monitor if that makes any difference too)

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alright i managed to get it running at 1280x1024 resolution (my comp should be running at 1680x1050) and tried to download the drivers for my graphics card to switch it over to the right driver and whe ni go to open the .run file it wouldn't run it just kept erroring and i retried it a few times but it didnt work

 

specs:

http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/linux/linux-radeon.html

ATI Proprietary Linux x86 Display Driver 8.32.5

radeon x700

 

any more help? haha

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I do not own an ATI card. I did a search and found this link with a response from ianw1974, our resident ATI expert:

 

https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtop...098&hl=x700

 

From the link:

 

An easier way to do the ati drivers is to run this command from a terminal:

 

urpmi dkms-ati

 

However, visit the easyurpmi link at the top of this page first, and add sources for main, contrib, updates, plf-free and plf-nonfree. Otherwise, you'll not be able to use dkms and ati. This injects the module into the kernel on startup, and you should hopefully find your system will work after this. You will of course need to run mcc, and configure the display and choose an ATI driver instead of VESA to get it to work.

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I do not own an ATI card. I did a search and found this link with a response from ianw1974, our resident ATI expert:

 

https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtop...098&hl=x700

 

From the link:

 

An easier way to do the ati drivers is to run this command from a terminal:

 

urpmi dkms-ati

 

However, visit the easyurpmi link at the top of this page first, and add sources for main, contrib, updates, plf-free and plf-nonfree. Otherwise, you'll not be able to use dkms and ati. This injects the module into the kernel on startup, and you should hopefully find your system will work after this. You will of course need to run mcc, and configure the display and choose an ATI driver instead of VESA to get it to work.

 

thats ati mobility radeon (laptop) not ati radeon x700!

 

 

and what exactly is this terminal you speak of?

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and what exactly is this terminal you speak of?

 

The "command line" interface. The "DOS prompt". If you are using KDE then it is called Konsole. On my Mandriva 2005 installation, Konsole is under the System menu.

 

The process of Installing the ATI driver using the urpmi command will be the same for a mobility radeon and a radeon x700.

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alright well i did exactly as it said but i dont think that worked?

heres 2 screens of my terminal:

http://img476.imageshack.us/img476/1038/screenshot1az1.png

http://img71.imageshack.us/img71/9330/screenshotmy0.png

 

and the command thing for the ati didnt work for me either!

 

urmpi command does not work for me :'(

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I think the mirror is down, the best 2 mirrors are distrib-coffee in france and anorien in the UK, mandriva employees maintain them.

 

btw: terminal outputs are nice because you can copy 'n' paste them and don't need to take screenshots ;)

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"urpmi.addmedia command not found"

 

"urpmi.addmedia command not found"

 

 

[mitch@localhost Desktop]$ urpmi.addmedia plf-free ftp://distrib-coffee.ispsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/plf/mandriva/2007.0/free/release/binary/i586/ with hdlist.cz
bash: urpmi.addmedia: command not found
[mitch@localhost Desktop]$

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An easier way to do the ati drivers is to run this command from a terminal:

 

urpmi dkms-ati

 

 

i just finished the easyurpmi thing and then i went back into the terminal and typed urpmi dkms-ati and now it says

[root@localhost Desktop]# urpmi dkms-ati
One of the following packages is needed:
1- kernel-source-stripped-2.6.17.5mdv-1-1mdv2007.0.i586 : The source code of the Linux kernel stripped for post build (to install)
2- kernel-tmb-source-stripped-2.6.18.5-1mdv-1-1mdv2007.0.i586 : The stripped Linux source code for kernel-tmb-2.6.18.5-1mdv (to install)
3- kernel-linus-source-2.6.19.1-1mdv-1-1mdv2007.0.i586 : The source code for the Linux kernel (to install)
4- kernel-linus-source-2.6.18.3-1mdv-1-1mdv2007.0.i586 : The source code for the Linux kernel (to install)
5- kernel-multimedia-source-stripped-2.6.17.13-3mdv-1-1mdv2007.0.i586 : The stripped source code for the Linux kernel-multimedia-2.6.17.13-3mdv (to install)
6- kernel-linus-source-stripped-2.6.19-3mdv-1-1mdv2007.0.i586 : The source code of the Linux kernel stripped for post build (to install)
7- kernel-tmb-source-stripped-2.6.17.13-4mdv-1-1mdv2007.0.i586 : The stripped Linux source code for kernel-tmb-2.6.17.13-4mdv (to install)
8- kernel-source-2.6.17.5mdv-1-1mdv2007.0.i586 : The source code for the Linux kernel (to install)
9- kernel-linus-source-stripped-2.6.18.3-1mdv-1-1mdv2007.0.i586 : The source code of the Linux kernel stripped for post build (to install)
10- kernel-linus-source-stripped-2.6.18.rc7.1mdv-1-1mdv2007.0.i586 : The source code of the Linux kernel stripped for post build (to install)
11- kernel-linus-source-2.6.18.5-1mdv-1-1mdv2007.0.i586 : The source code for the Linux kernel (to install)
12- kernel-linus-source-stripped-2.6.19-2mdv-1-1mdv2007.0.i586 : The source code of the Linux kernel stripped for post build (to install)
13- kernel-linus-source-2.6.19-2mdv-1-1mdv2007.0.i586 : The source code for the Linux kernel (to install)
14- kernel-tmb-source-2.6.17.13-4mdv-1-1mdv2007.0.i586 : The Linux source code for kernel-tmb-2.6.17.13-4mdv (to install)
15- kernel-tmb-source-2.6.18.5-1mdv-1-1mdv2007.0.i586 : The Linux source code for kernel-tmb-2.6.18.5-1mdv (to install)
16- kernel-linus-source-2.6.18.2-1mdv-1-1mdv2007.0.i586 : The source code for the Linux kernel (to install)
17- kernel-linus-source-stripped-2.6.19.1-1mdv-1-1mdv2007.0.i586 : The source code of the Linux kernel stripped for post build (to install)
18- kernel-multimedia-source-2.6.17.13-3mdv-1-1mdv2007.0.i586 : The source code for the Linux kernel-multimedia-2.6.17.13-3mdv (to install)
19- kernel-linus-source-stripped-2.6.18.5-1mdv-1-1mdv2007.0.i586 : The source code of the Linux kernel stripped for post build (to install)
20- kernel-linus-source-2.6.18.rc7.1mdv-1-1mdv2007.0.i586 : The source code for the Linux kernel (to install)
21- kernel-linus-source-2.6.19-3mdv-1-1mdv2007.0.i586 : The source code for the Linux kernel (to install)
22- kernel-linus-source-stripped-2.6.18.2-1mdv-1-1mdv2007.0.i586 : The source code of the Linux kernel stripped for post build (to install)
What is your choice? (1-22)

 

 

what am i supposed to pick? haha

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type uname -r to check your kernel and select the source version of your kernel, most likely it will be number one however. Kernel sources come in 2 flavours stripped and non-stripped. Non-stripped is about 200 MB and stripped 40 MB. I guess the non-stripped version isn't really necessary unless you want to recompile the kernel yourself.

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